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Gary,
The problem may exist in letting windows manage your swap file, or
whatever it was you changed in the memory allocation. I might be inclined
to think that it has something to do with some part of your hardware dying,
but with only Tradestation being affected I doubt it. I would go back to
the old way of managing the swap file and see if that fixes the problem.
Chris Guethle
kobold@xxxxxxxx
>For the last week or so, my system (a Pentium 200MMX, 64MB RAM,
>running W95) has been very sluggish. It seems like a few times every
>second it pauses a bit, like it was off executing something else.
>The mouse is fairly jerky, getting "stuck" for a few tenths of a
>second as I move it. Sometimes it even drops keys while I'm typing.
>
>I'm used to the Server eating up all available CPU time. This is
>different, and it's only been happening recently. I've done a bunch
>of changes to my system recently (from letting Windows manage my swap
>file, to installing new software, to installing a new modem) so one
>of those may be responsible, but I don't think so.
>
>Why? Because this only happens when Tradestation is running. The
>Charting app seems to be eating CPU time now, just like the Server.
>Normally, if it's just sitting there displaying charts, it uses
>almost no CPU time. But recently it seems to be fighting with the
>Server for the biggest CPU hog. Typically the Server is running at
>about 50-70% CPU usage, TS_Chart.Exe runs at about 20-40%, and the
>other 20 or so process collectively use 10% or less. (Those CPU
>numbers come from WINTOP.)
>
>I'm not running any optimizations or anything like that. I've got
>lots of charts in 5 workspaces, many with systems running in them,
>but that's nothing new. I don't know what's changed in the past week
>to make TS start eating more CPU. And I don't understand how even
>piggy TS processes could interfere with high-priority things like
>mouse and keyboard handlers.
>
>Any guesses??
>Thanks,
>Gary
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